• Appeal mechanisms and post conviction relief procedures may help to address this issue to some extent. An error leading to the conviction of an innocent person...
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  • In law, post conviction refers to the legal process which takes place after a trial results in conviction of the defendant. After conviction, a court will...
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  • November 6, 2015, Judge Welch re-opened Syed's post-conviction relief proceedings. The post-conviction relief hearing, originally scheduled to last two...
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  • from the Post Office and Fujitsu. Courts began to quash the subpostmasters' convictions in December 2020. By February 2024, 100 of the convictions had been...
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  • sentenced Nichols to life in prison without parole on the conspiracy conviction, calling Nichols "an enemy of the Constitution" who had conspired to destroy...
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  • has received public attention for its use in resolving high-profile post-conviction proceedings for individuals who claim they were wrongfully convicted...
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  • 2020, in a 7–0 decision, the Supreme Court of California upheld Scott's conviction but overturned his death sentence; the court found that Scott's trial...
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    Zellner filed a motion with the Manitowoc County circuit court for post-conviction scientific testing. Judge Angela Sutkiewicz signed a stipulation and...
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    the failure of any charges to "stick". While Gotti himself had escaped conviction, his associates were not as fortunate. The other two men in the Gambino...
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  • Judge Hiller B. Zobel reduced Woodward's conviction to involuntary manslaughter during a post-conviction relief hearing, leading to her release after...
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